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Theodor Heuss

1884 - 1963

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Theodor Heuss (German: [ˈteːodoːɐ̯ ˈhɔʏs] ; 31 January 1884 – 12 December 1963) was a German liberal politician who served as the first president of West Germany from 1949 to 1959. His civil demeanour and his cordial nature – something of a contrast to German nationalist traditions and the stern character of chancellor Konrad Adenauer – largely contributed to the stabilization of democracy in West Germany during the Wirtschaftswunder years. Before beginning his career as a politician, Heuss had been a political journalist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Theodor Heuss has received more than 758,352 page views. His biography is available in 59 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 57 in 2019). Theodor Heuss is the 1,184th most popular politician (up from 1,317th in 2019), the 313th most popular biography from Germany (up from 365th in 2019) and the 89th most popular German Politician.

Theodor Heuss was a German politician who served as the first president of the Federal Republic of Germany.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Theodor Heuss ranks 1,184 out of 19,576. Before him are Ghazan, Fuxi, Chun Doo-hwan, Michel Aoun, Jiaqing Emperor, and Ladislaus I of Hungary. After him are Artaxerxes III, Mahmud of Ghazni, Minamoto no Yoritomo, Emomali Rahmon, Julius Streicher, and Kwame Nkrumah.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1884, Theodor Heuss ranks 13. Before him are Hideki Tojo, Bronisław Malinowski, Casimir Funk, Édouard Daladier, Anton Drexler, and Max Brod. After him are Franz Halder, Peter Debye, Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Friedrich Bergius, Gaston Bachelard, and Hermann Rorschach. Among people deceased in 1963, Theodor Heuss ranks 16. Before him are Ngo Dinh Diem, Tristan Tzara, C. S. Lewis, Abd el-Krim, Yasujirō Ozu, and Nâzım Hikmet. After him are Francis Poulenc, Sylvia Plath, Paul Hindemith, Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, Herbert Spencer Gasser, and Archduchess Elisabeth Marie of Austria.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Theodor Heuss ranks 313 out of 7,253. Before him are Henry the Lion (1129), Christian III of Denmark (1503), Hans von Aachen (1552), Karen Horney (1885), Carl Bosch (1874), and August Ferdinand Möbius (1790). After him are Julius Streicher (1885), Georgy Lvov (1861), Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist (1881), Johann Friedrich Struensee (1737), Joseph Beuys (1921), and Ilse Koch (1906).

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Among POLITICIANS In Germany

Among politicians born in Germany, Theodor Heuss ranks 89. Before him are Otto IV, Holy Roman Emperor (1175), Helmut Schmidt (1918), Maximilian II of Bavaria (1811), Baldur von Schirach (1907), Henry the Lion (1129), and Christian III of Denmark (1503). After him are Julius Streicher (1885), Georgy Lvov (1861), Johann Friedrich Struensee (1737), Ilse Koch (1906), Gustav Stresemann (1878), and Frederick I of Sweden (1676).

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